Month: November 2014

Philippians 4:13 Gladys Alward was a working class London girl who left domestic work to go to China, in the years leading up to World War II. She worked with an older missionary, Jeannie Lawson, to found an inn where traveling merchants could get a hot meal and hear stories from the Bible. Gladys was … Read More

Ann was the first woman missionary to leave America. It was unthinkable then for women to travel to remote places to work among the unsaved in primitive surroundings. But Ann Judson insisted on going; knowing this was God’s call for her. She wanted to be used by God and prayed, “Direct me in Your service, … Read More

Matthew 10:37-39 We should all be thankful for Elisabeth Elliot, one of the 20th century’s most well-known missionaries. In 1956, she was living in Ecuador, reaching unchurched tribal peoples when her husband, Jim Elliot, and five other missionaries were killed by the Auca tribal people of Eastern Ecuador. Instead of leaving Ecuador, she persevered there … Read More

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” (James 1:2-4) Twelve years. Exactly how long it took from the day God … Read More

David and Sherri Godbout are U.S. Missionaries with the Assemblies of God in the urban neighborhoods of St. Louis, Missouri. David and Sherri Godbout resigned as full-time Pastors to pursue their call to missions. They have a very simple directive, to make disciples. Their focus is to disciple people in the Gospel of Jesus Christ … Read More

How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? Romans10:14 Elizabeth Ressen has been a missionary all over Southeast Asia for many years. However, her story of becoming a missionary … Read More

John 20:21 In 1954, with a 1-year-old daughter, Mark and Huldah found themselves on a ship to Calcutta, the beginning of a voyage that would take them across the Atlantic for three months on two ships. Their first approach to their new home was up the narrow and treacherous Hooghly River. “It was like entering … Read More

Eric Liddell, an Olympic athlete was made famous through the movie “Chariots of Fire” about his unwillingness to run on Sundays, where he won a gold medal. But Eric’s Olympic post-life is the real story! After the Olympics, Liddell returned to China to work as a missionary and was asked to work as a village … Read More

Matthew 9:35-38 David Johannes’s journey into long-term missions began on a youth missions trip in the mid-1990s to Southeast Asia. He loved it so much that he decided to live his life on the mission field, reaching people who’ve never had the chance to hear about the Gospel. David is very passionate about reaching … Read More

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you: and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) I wish I knew her name… I don’t. I follow her blog because she’s living out … Read More